Cocktails That Will Keep You Warm

Really manly brandy cocktails

Ginger Loves to Gossip

• 45ml Brandy
• 20 ml Ginger Lime Cordial
• 10ml Lime Juice
• 30ml Sprite
• 60ml Soda

Pour the brandy in a glass and top it with ginger lime cordial, lime juice, Sprite and soda. Add some cracked ice, stir gently and serve.

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Citric Connection

• 45ml Brandy
• 4 Orange Chunks
• 20ml Passion Fruit syrup
• 15ml Lime Juice
• A dash of Soda

Muddle orange with lime and passion fruit in glass, pour the brandy, add some crushed ice to it, shake and strain it in the glass.

LaLune Jaune

• 45ml Brandy
• 4 Pineapple Chunks
• 1 tbsp Anise Seeds
• 15ml Lime Juice
• 15ml Sugar Syrup
• 30ml Pineapple Juice
• 2 dashes of Angustura Bitters

Muddle pineapple, anise seeds and sugar syrup in a glass, pour brandy along with diluted lime juice and pineapple juice. Add some crushed ice and shake hard for 10 seconds before straining it in the glass. Top with Angustura bitters.

Bangkok Surprise

• 45ml Brandy
• 40ml of Triple Sec
• 1 Orange Chunk
• 15ml of Lime Juice
• 60 ml Beer
• A dash of Soda

Muddle orange in a glass, pour the brandy, Triple sec and lime juice. Top it with beer and add some soda before serving.

Amigo

• 45ml Brandy
• 1 tbsp Orange Marmalade
• 15ml of Lime Juice
• 15ml Monin Triple Sec
• 1 Orange Zest

Muddle lime and sugar in a glass, add brandy and pour a tbsp of marmalade. Dilute 15ml Monin Triple Sec in the glass, add 1 Orange zest, fill the glass with some crushed ice, stir the mixture and serve.

Side Kick

• 45ml brandy
• 15ml of Triple sec
• 10ml of Monin Spicy Syrup
• 20ml of Lime juice

Pour brandy in a glass and dilute the Triple sec and Monin Spicy syrup to it. Now add the lime juice and some cracked ice. Shake and strain it in the glass. Serve.

Cocktails by USL’s Louis Vernant XO brandy

From the December 2013 issue of FHM India.